Saturday, April 25, 2015

We had serious technical challenges to overcome this time, but overcome we did. Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Marsha Barnhart and Buck Field and special guest Hiroja Shibe of the Musings of a Shibe podcast. The subject is the emerging peer-to-peer economy enabled by crytptocurrencies like DogeCoin. We talk about the history of cryptocurrency, the cutlure around it, and risks and concerns, such as volatility, fraud, and co-opting by the financial elite. Links:

Friday, April 17, 2015

Paul Carr welcomes panelists Buck Field and Chris McGinlay. We talk about the rise of smart robots, and the hope of Robot Ethics. Did Asimov get it right, or do we have to hope that superintelligent robots find us adorable?

Friday, April 10, 2015

Host Paul Carr welcomes back Marsha Barnhart, Ciro Villa and Nick Nielsen (Patrick Festa joins us late in the show) for a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation. We talk about how the peryton mystery may have been solved, Nick's work on the types of civilizations, current and future space propulsion technology, Fast Radio Bursts, the origin and evolution of life on Earth and elsewhere, and the Drake equation.

It looks like we'll be talking about AI, robotics, and AI ethics focused by Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics, which he explored extensively in his I, Robot stories. If you have any questions or comments, let us know by commenting here.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

On this, the inaugural episode of the Unseen Podcast, host Paul Carr welcomes Dr. Ben Tippett of the Titanium Physicists podcast to field our questions about the frontiers of physics. We talked about the multiverse, cosmic inflation, gravity waves, black holes, possible new discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider, and much more. Our panelists were Marsha Barnhart, Nick Nielsen and Ciro Villa.

The Unseen Podcast is an open participation podcast. If you want to be added to the panel pool, e-mail us at unseenpodcast@gmail.com and we'll explain how you can be added to the panel pool. Up to nine people are invited to participate in each panel. We are also looking for special guests, if you have expert knowledge you wish to share with us.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

there's nothing there now, but watch this space. You can use this URL to subscribe to the podcast using your favorite podcatcher. We probably won't submit the podcast to iTunes for a week or two, and ditto the minor services like Stitcher, Miro, etc.